Comment 2 for bug 1776364

Hi all,

Added a possible patch to fix this. It works by adding a generateifpossible flag to get_local_path which is used within get_dataroot_image_path to gate ensure_local. External FS's can then call get_local_path with this flag set to false to avoid calling any of the generating code. Additionally get_local_path will return the local FS path even if it is not readable in this case.

The ideal solution would probably involve decoupling the actual path retrieval and image generation in get_dataroot_image_path, however as a non-mahara developer I was not comfortable with the code footprint that would be required to do so.

Thanks,
KC